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"You've authenticated fingerprint security, that means your chat is secured. Why blocking screenshot, after all it's your own chat, it's your own WhatsApp, you should be able to do what you want."

The fingerprint authentication feature is still in the "alpha stage of development", but will be available in future versions of WhatsApp for Android.

Whether or not the block on conversation screenshots makes it through to the final version remains to be seen, but you'll always have the option to disable fingerprint security and re-enable screenshots.

This is not the only update that WhatsApp is planning to roll out in the coming months.

Last week it emerged that the company is working on animated stickers , which will be included in WhatsApp sticker packs, alongside static options.

WhatsApp is also changing the emojis within Doodle UI to make them more consistent with the rest of the WhatsApp experience.